the now, the limbic brain, and the fear of abandonment
One would think that zen masters can stop meditating on life since they have already achieved zenness, but there is this parable somewhere which I can’t remember – that the more zen…
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Designing a self-directed learning network: work-in-progress v0.1
core ideas, the process and an early prototype
gradual numbing
being touched by love it is tiring and yet enduring to brace my heart once more for the bruises and gradual numbing
paradoxical chaos
I have had an intense past couple of weeks. Everything is happening so fast and in concurrence that I haven’t had the space to distill them yet. I wrote a post last…
on being chronically depressed and suicidal
(This is a cross-post from Medium and I don’t typically cross-post but a reader has pointed out that Medium is now blocked in her country – Malaysia, which is really unfortunate.) A…
people’s eyes
I see universes in people’s eyes.
a becoming that insists
she restores the order in my universe everything around me seems brighter a better grasp of my own position through anchoring hers how do I deny such knowing such settling of peace…
mortality and becoming
I should be writing more. I want to, but I start telling myself a thousand reasons why not, and so I don’t. But I accumulate all these thoughts in my head and…
love is the world we can imagine
love is the world we can imagine when yours and mine collide. that sense of loss when we think of them apart. for the stories untold, the tears unshed, the joy unfelt….
you and I
you and I we are alight from the same source of life with you I feel unendingly bright inching away I watch the shadows grow I forget how it once felt to…